英语四级短篇阅读真题

『壹』 英语四级22年12月真题

英语四级22年12月真题如下：

【听力部分】

短篇新闻1

News report 1

operations at one of Australia's largest gold mines had to be temporarily suspended on Friday after a partial wall collapse at one of the mines' dams (Question 1).The wall collapse at the cadia mine came just a few days atert wo earthquakes hit the area.

The damage to the dam wall was noticed in the late afternoon on Friday when workers found a section of the northern dam wall had"collapsed into the southern dam.

The dams contain waste procts of mining and can contain materials which are harmful to the environment and human health. The dams are generally constructed using earth fill and are graally raised over time. The company was unable to confirm whether the recent earthquakes had contributed to the dam's wall collapse, but said it was concting a thorough investigation. A company spokesperson said that operations at the site had been halted while the investigation is ongoing, and that the brake had posed no safelyithreat to workers.(Ouestion2)

Question1:

Whathappenedatone,otAustrala's largestgoldmines?

Ouestion2:

hatdidjhespokespersonsayabout theincident?

短篇新闻2

News report 2

Two boys and four girls were born on Monday to the surprise of a young couple and doctors who had expected five babies. This was the first record of 6 babies being born at the same time in that region.

The doctors prepared from early in the morningtohelp deliver five tiny citizens. They were in the operating room with five teams of doctors, one for each baby (Question 3). The first five babies were detivered successfully, and all baby beds were occupied. And then allof a sudden, it turned out there was another waiting to come out.

The doctors said the babies were in healthy condition but could not go home immediatel. They needed to stay in the hospital for 2 to 3 months for medical supervision. (Question 4)

The mother, who was in stable condition, could return home a day later if all physical tests came back normal. The baby's mother commented that they had already-prepared room for five babies at home, so they will have to rearrange things for their happy surprise. The new parents have yet to name the 6th baby but are considering either Lily or rose.

Question 3:

What did the hospital do for the delivery gfthe babies?

Question 4:

What did the doctor say about the newborns?

短篇新闻3

News Report 3

A Spanish island called Palmador has been bought by a family from Europe for 18 million euros.(Question 5) Island is often described as heaven on earth by holiday makers. Decades tourists have been flocking to Palmador, which is located off the southeast coast of Spain.(Question 5)They come to enjoy its unspoiled beaches and crystal-clear waters.(Question 6) Its natural beauty is protected as it lies inside a natural park.

Although Palmador is one of the most famous private lislands in the world, its seafront is public land and is a favorite destination for famous people. When the island was put up for sale, it was offered to the local government, but proved too expensive for the local authorities. It is unclear whether the new owners have the power to ban tourists from the island, but with their newfound luxury comes the responsibility for its protection and maintenance.

The island is less than two miles long and half a mile wide. (Question 5)It is said to have a remarkable location that few other private islands of this size can match. According to estate agents, Palmador is the perfect place to retreat to get away from the city noise and relax in beautiful surroundings with zero stress.(Question 7)

Question 5

What do we learn from the news report about the Spanish island Palmador?

Question 6

What do hotiday makers come to Palmador to enjoy?

Question 7

What do estate agents say about Palmador?

四级长对话1

Conversation 1

A: Hi Christi's Gym Center? How can I help you.

B:Hi?Q8.I'mcallingtoaskaboutthenewly scheled gym classes. I'm just wondering if l can get a discount on them.

A: Are you already a member?

B: Yes. I signed up 2 months ago but I haven't been to any of the group classes yet.

A∶Can I take your name please?

B:Yes, my name is CarolFriedman.

A: Carol Friedman.That's right and you signed up 2 monthsl ago.Q9.Currently we are offering existing members discounts off 2 of our brand new classes. Hot yoga and advanced spinning. But the discount doesn't apply to any of our regular classes. I'm afraid.

B: I'm only interested in the new classes, so how much of a discount is there on these 2 new classes?

A:Q10.The same discount of 20% is being offered to everyone at the door on a first-come-first-serve basis for the first month. It's a shame you missed out on the general discount. B:I see.

A: But you can get 25% off if you sign up in advance. Which of the 2 classes are-you thinking about?

B: Well I guess I am only really interested in hot yoga. Can you sign me up for the 10 week course on Thursday evenings.

A: Sure would you prefer to pay in advance?

B: No,Q11.I don't like giving my card details over the phone anyway.

A: OK then. As you are already a member, that fee for thel class will just be added to your monthly bill.

B: That's perfect. Thanks for your help.

A: See you Thursday.

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

Question 8

What do we learn about the woman from the conversation?

Question 9

What is the gym center doing right now?

Question 10

What does the man say is a pity forithe woman?

Question 11

Why is the woman unwilling to pay in advance?

【选词填空】

26.L)ranging

27.H)measured

28.B)certificates

29.M) relative

30.E) differences

31.O)targeting

32.C)connected

33.D)emonstrates

34.A)acknowledge

35.F)establish

【仔细阅读部分】

46.What characterizes Japanese and Chinese foods? A

A)Variety.

B)Flavor.

C)Color.

D)Naturalness.

47.What is typical of Amenicans in the way of eating?B

A)Theyemphasizenutrition.

B)They tend to eat quite a lot.

C)They prioritize convenience.

D) They care about flavors.

48.What features in Mediterranean. Nordic and Okinawan diets?C

A)Fruits and vegetables.

B)Olive oil and red wine.

C)Seasonallocalproce.

D)Unprooessedingredients.

49.What do people in most healthy eating cultures have in comman?D

A)They get the whole family to eat at a table.

B)They eat their meals regularly and punctually.

C) They consume plenty of cereal for breakfast.

D) They attach great importance to their meals.

50.Comgared wth the average Amencan,people in heathy Soaetes___B

A)welk at least 4 miles a day

B)doconsiderablymorewalking

C)pay more attention to body shape

D)consume a lot more organic food

51. What is the finding of the new study?C

A)Emotional intelligence helps people get along with others,

B)Emotional intelligence is generally beneficial to its bearer.

C)People who are aware of others' feelings may experience more stress.

D) may have trouble making friends.

52.What was the purpose of psychologist Myriam Bechtoldt's experiment?B

A) To define different types of human feelings.

B) To assess the impacts of being emotionally clever,

C)To demonstrate how to distinguish different feelings.

D) To identify gender differences in emotional intelligence.

53.What does the finding of Myriam Bechtoldt's study indicate?D

A)'slife.

B)Emotional intelligence helps people succoed in job interviews

C) People's psychological wellbeing is related to various factors

D)People may suffer from having a high emotional intelligence.

54.What do we leorn about ?C

A)Peoplesufferingfromdepression are emotionally immature.

B) People who look at the dark side of life often feel depressed.

C) Some people may take advantage of it and benefit themselves.

D) Some people may lack it and are easily manipulated by others.

55. What does the author suggest sensitive indivials do?A

A) Avoid burdening themselves with others'feelings,

B)Rid themselves of worries over worldly affairs.

C)Learn to cope with people'snegauve feelings.

D)Help people todeal with their troubl esinlife.

【翻译部分】

冬至是全年白昼最长，黑夜最短的一天，标志着一年中最寒冷时节的开始。东至过后，气温越来越低，人们户外活动逐渐减少，农民地里的活不多，主要忙于灌溉系统的维护和主要农作物的防冻，同时为来年春天播种做准备。中国人历年来很重视冬至，许多地方都把冬至当作一个节日，庆祝方式不尽相同，北方人有冬至吃饺子的习俗，南方人有冬至吃汤圆的传统。

Winter Solstice is the day with the shortest daytime and the longest nighttime, marking the beginning of the coldest time of a year. From this moment on, the temperature drops continuously, and people graally rece their outdoor ac-tivities. Farmers have less work in their field, mainly engag-ing themselves in the maintenance of the irrigation system and the prevention of freezing harm to crops to prepare for the spring sowing in the coming year.

Chinese have always been attaching so much importance to Winter Solstice that it is regarded as a festival in many places, when people celebrate it in different ways. The people in the north have the custom of eating jiaozi and those in the south the tradition of eating tangyuan.

【作文部分】

the importance of developing a healthy lifestyle among college students

『贰』 2010年12月英语四级试卷阅读理解试题选项及答案。

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『叁』 关于18年6月的英语四级仔细阅读答案

大学英语四级考试真题（卷二）之仔细阅读
【篇章分析】
本篇文章整体阅读难度并不大，主要讲的是关于居住在绿色生态空间的人们要比居住在市区的人们拥有长期的积极的幸福影响。文章后的五道题目以事实细节考查为主，题干定位信息明确，做题难度在中等偏下水平。
【参考答案】
46 B Add to their sustained happiness.
47 A Earn more money.
48 C How long its positive effect lasts.
49 D Their communication with others improved.
50 A Find financial support.
【答案解析】
46. 根据题干中的定位名词study和green spaces回文快速定位到文章中的第一段，根据第一段的信息可得出UK
researchers found moving to a green space had a sustained positive
effect（英国研究者发现搬到绿色小区可以带来持久的积极影响）。以及“people living in greener urban areas
were displaying fewer signs of depression or
anxiety（生活在绿色小区的人们较少表现出抑郁或焦虑的情绪）”这两处信息可以确定本题的正确选项是B （Add to their
sustained happiness）。
47. 本题根据题干定位词Dr. White 及usually do定位到本篇文章中的第一段"There could be a
number of reasons,” he said, “for example, people do many things to make
themselves happier: they strive for promotion or pay rises, or they get
married.处，根据本句信息，可推出人们通常让自己快乐的事是挣更多的钱，因此本题的正确选项为A（Earn more money.）。
48. 由第一段可知“升值、加薪、中彩票只会给人们带来短期的快乐，这种快乐在过了六个月到一年后就会消失”，第二段首句“Dr. White
said his team wanted to see whether living in greener urban areas had a
lasting positive effect on people's sense of well-being or whether the
effect also disappeared after a period of time.”进一步承接第一段说明Dr.
White的研究目的是要知道居住在绿色环境中给人带来的积极影响可以持续多久。故本题正确选项为C选项（How long its positive
effect lasts.）。
49. 根据题干信息可以将本题定位至第三段，在最后一句话中，“He observed that people living in
green spaces were less stressed, and less stressed people made more
sensible decisions and communicated better.”由最后的communicate better
可以得出本题的正确选项为D （Their communication with others improved.）。
50. 根据本题题干给出的信息，根据定位词Dr. White
和government，可定位至最后一段，提到我们需要资金来建立一个高质量的绿色社区，从最后一段的最后一句话“what we really
need at a policy level is to decide where the money is going to come
from to help support good quality local green spaces.”可得出本题的正确选项为A（Find
financial support.）。

『肆』 2021年12月英语四级阅读理解真题解析(卷三)

大学英语四级考试满分：710。听力（35%）249分、阅读（35%）249分、综合（10%）70分、写作和翻译（20%）142分。

12月英语四级阅读理解真题解析

仔细阅读：

Have you ever wondered how acceptable it is to hug or touchsomeone ?

46.C)Its absence might suggest a lack of warmth in interpersonal relationships .

47.D)How close the communicator‘s relationships are .

48.B) They take touching as a cultural norm in social interactions.

49.A)Men can show friendship in public through physical affection.

50.D)Take other people's preference into consideration .

From climate change to the ongoing pandemic (大流行病) and beyond ，the issues facing today's world are increasingly complex and dynamic .

51.A)It faces problems that are getting more varied and compli-cated.

52.C) People are divided about the nature of interest .

53.D)How a growth mindset of interest can contribute to crossdisciplinarythinking.

54.C) Making innovative procts needs multidisciplinary procts.

55.B) Broadening their interests .

提高四级阅读理解成绩的方法

1、了解文章main idea(主要意思)

做英语阅读理解就好像做语文阅读理解时一样，要知道这篇文章的主旨或者说是中心思想，对文章所讲的主旨内容和它的中心思想做到心里有数。达到一种高度——只要一做英语阅读理解题，脑子里就要条件反射的蹦出main idea，然后再去阅读问题和文章。

2、先看问题，再粗读文章

带着寻找main idea的思想，先去看一遍问题，把问题中的关键词圈出来，然后再去粗略的读一遍文章。在读的时候，不用做到每个单词都看懂，每句话都能翻译出来。只要对文章大致上有一个了解就够了，这样文章的main idea也就出来了。

要注意的是，在读到觉得跟所问问题有关联的句子的时候，可以先用笔把句子勾出来，在上边标记上有关联的问题的题号，然后接着往下读。

3、精读问题和所标记的句子

读完通篇的同时，也把跟问题有关的的句子画出来了，这个时候再去精读标记的句子，仔细研究问题和跟问题有关的句子，琢磨其意思，尽量做到胸有成竹，然后再回答每一个问题。

『伍』 2019年6月英语四级阅读真题及答案

2019年6月英语四级阅读真题Passage One

Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.

Most kids grow up learning they cannot draw on the walls. But it might be time to unlearn that training-this summer, a group of culture addicts, artists and community organizers are inviting New Yorkers to write all over the walls of an old house on Governor's Island.

The project is called Writing On It All, and it's a participatory writing project and artistic experiment that has happened on Governor's Island every summer since 2013.

"Most of the participants are people who are just walking by or are on the island for other reasons, or they just kind of happen to be there," Alexandra Chasin, artistic director of Writing On It All, tells Smithsonian, com.

The 2016 season runs through June 26 and features sessions facilitated by everyone from dancers to domestic workers. Each session has a theme, and participants are given a variety of materials and prompts and asked to cover surfaces with their thoughts and art. This year, the programs range from one that turns the house into a collaborative essay to one that explores the meaning of exile.

Governor's Island is a national historic landmark district long used for military purposes. Now known as "New York's shared space for art and play," the island, which lies between Manhattan and Brooklyn in Upper New York Bay, is closed to cars but open to summer tourists who flock for festivals, picnics, adventures, as well as these "legal graffiti (涂鸦)" sessions.

The notes and art scribbled (涂画)on the walls are an experiment in self-expression. So far, participants have ranged in age from 2 to 85. Though Chasin says the focus of the work is on the activity of writing, rather than the text that ends up getting written, some of the work that comes out of the sessions has stuck with her.

"One of the sessions that moved me the most was state violence on black women and black girls," says Chasin, explaining that in one room, people wrote down the names of those killed because of it. "People do beautiful work and leave beautiful messages."

46. What does the project Writing On It All invite people to do?

A) Unlearn their training in drawing.

B) Participate in a state graffiti show.

C) Cover the walls of an old house with graffiti.

D) Exhibit their artistic creations in an old house.

47. What do we learn about the participants in the project?

A) They are just culture addicts.

B) They are graffiti enthusiasts.

C) They are writers and artists.

D) They are mostly passers-by.

48. What did the project participants do ring the 2016 season?

A) They were free to scribble on the walls whatever came to their mind.

B) They expressed their thoughts in graffiti on the theme of each session.

C) They learned the techniques of collaborative writing.

D) They were required to cooperate with other creators.

49. What kind of place is Governor's Island?

A) It is a historic site that attracts tourists and artists.

B) It is an area now accessible only to tourist vehicles.

C) It is a place in Upper New York Bay formerly used for exiles.

D) It is an open area for tourists to enjoy themselves year round.

50. What does Chasin say about the project?

A) It just focused on the sufferings of black females.

B) It helped expand the influence of graffiti art.

C) It has started the career of many creative artists.

D) It has created some meaningful artistic works.

2019年6月英语四级阅读真题Passage Two

Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.

Online programs to fight depression are already commercially available. While they sound efficient and cost-saving, a recent study reports that they are not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to engage with them or stick with them.

The study looked at computer-assisted cognitive (认知的)behavioral therapy (CBT) and found that it was no more effective in treating depression than the usual care patients receive from a primary care doctor.

Traditional CBT is considered an effective form of talk therapy for depression, helping people challenge negative thoughts and change the way they think in order to change their mood and behaviors. However, online CBT programs have been gaining popularity, with the attraction of providing low-cost help wherever someone has access to a computer.

A team of researchers from the University of York concted a randomized (随机的)control trial with 691 depressed patients from 83 physician practices across England. The patients were split into three groups: one group received only usual care from a physician while the other two groups received usual care I from a physician plus one of two computerized CBT programs. Participants were balanced across the three groups for age, sex, ecational background' severity and ration of depression, and use of antidepressants (抗抑郁药).

After four months, the patients using the computerized CBT programs had no improvement in depression levels over the patients who were only getting usual care from their doctors.

"It's an important, cautionary note that we shouldn't get too carried away with the idea that a computer system can replace doctors and therapists," says Christopher Dowrick, a professor of primary medical care at the University of Liverpool. "We do still need the human touch or the human interaction, particularly when people are depressed. "

Being depressed can mean feeling "lost in your own small' negative, dark world," Dowrick says. Having a person, instead of a computer, reach out to you is particularly important in combating that sense of isolation. "When you're emotionally vulnerable, you're even more in need of a caring human being," he says.

51. What does the recent study say about online CBT programs?

A) Patients may not be able to carry them through for effective cure.

B) Patients cannot engage with them without the use of a computer.

C) They can save patients trouble visiting physicians.

D) They have been well received by a lot of patients.

52. What has made online CBT programs increasingly popular?

A) Their effectiveness in combating depression.

B) The low efficiency of traditional talk therapy.

C) Their easy and inexpensive access by patients.

D) The recommendation by primary care doctors.

53. What is the major finding by researchers at the University of York?

A) Online CBT programs are no more effective than regular care from physicians.

B) The process of treating depression is often more complicated than anticipated.

C) The combination of traditional CBT and computerized CBT is most effective.

D) Depression is a mental condition which is to be treated with extreme caution.

54. What is Professor Dowrick's advice concerning online CBT programs?

A) They should not be neglected in primary care.

B) Their effectiveness should not be overestimated.

C) They should be used by strictly following instructions.

D) Their use should be encouraged by doctors and therapists.

55. What is more important to an emotionally vulnerable person?

A) A positive state of mind.

B) Appropriate medication.

C) Timely encouragement.

D) Human interaction.

答案：46.C、47.D、48.B、49.A、50.D、51.A、52.C、53.A、54.B、55.D

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关于英语4级短文篇1

科学家寻找矿物的专属区域

Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an hour's 11 one of the scientists wrote in his book, "Look here for 12 metal. " Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain region, sent a 13 to other scientists on the ground, "Gold possible. " Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported, "This ground should be searched for metals. " From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one word, "Uranium. "

None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no 14 powers for looking down below the earth's surface. They were 15 putting to use one of the newest methods of 16 minerals in the ground—using trees and plants as 17 that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees and plants are growing.

This newest method of searching for minerals is 18 on the fact that minerals deep in the earth may 19 the kind of bushes and trees that grow on the surface.

At Watson Bar Creek, a brook six thousand feet high in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees. Roots were g and put into boxes. Each bag and box was 20 marked. In a scientific laboratory the parts of the forest trees were burned to ashes and tested. Each small part was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it.

关于英语4级短文篇2

人类大脑智力的决定因素

There are two factors which determine an indivial's intelligence. The first is the sort of brain he is born with. Human brains differ considerably , some being more capable than others. But no matter how good a brain he has to begin with, an indivial will have a low order of intelligence unless he has opportunities to learn. So the second factor is what happens to the indivial— the sort of environment in which he is brought up. If an indivial is handicapped(不利) environmentally, it is likely that his brain will fail to develop and he will never attain the level of intelligence of which he is capable.

The importance of environment in determining an indivial's intelligence can be demonstrated by the case history of the identical twins, Peter and Mark. Being identical, the twins had identical brains at birth, and their growth processes were the same. When the twins were three months old, their parents died, and they were placed in separate foster(抚养) homes. Peter was raised by parents of low intelligence in an isolated community with poor ecational opportunities. Mark was reared in the home of well-to-do parents who had been to college. He was read to as a child, sent to good schools, and given every opportunity to be stimulated intellectually. This environmental difference continued until the twins were in their late teens, when they were given tests to measure their intelligence. Mark's I. Q. was 125, twenty-five points higher than the average and fully forty points higher than his identical brother. Given equal opportunities, the twins, having identical brains, would have tested at roughly the same level.

关于英语4级短文篇3

我的朋友索菲亚布伦特

Sophy Brent came to visit me nearly every day. She made me feel uneasy most of the time. She smoked 11 and never used an ashtray. She followed me into the kitchen while I made tea or coffee or supper and 12 herself to the children's orange juice. She made a great hit with my two-year-old daughter Flora, who would 13 about her for hours and refer to her lovingly as "sofa", and she was always talking about my husband and asking me where he was.

I could not decide why she chose my 14 , although I realized that nobody else paid her very much attention. Her situation was very difficult in that she was 15 out of drama school and only nineteen, but being 16 to play a leading part in a company of fairly 17 and experienced actors. They would not have liked her much even if she had been good, and as, from all accounts, she was not good so they took every 18 to run her down. I think she thought that I was the only person around who was both unconnected with the theatre and tolerably 19 . To associate with me was not, at any rate, to step down the scale. And for my part, although I felt troubled by her I did not dislike her. There was something genuinely outstanding in her personality, and she had such physical 20 that with me she could get away with anything. She was nice to have around, like flowers or a bowl of fruit.

『柒』 2019年12月大学英语四级真题长阅读（第一套）

2019年12月14日，大学英语四级笔试考试已经结束，各位考生对本次四级考试的做题感觉如何呢？ 文都四六级 英语老师在考后及时为大家整理2019年12月大学英语四级真题长阅读(第一套)，希望大家都能够顺利通过本次四级考试。

Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own

A) Getting around a city is one thing — and then there’s the matter of getting from one city to another. One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access to air travel.

In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports. The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses “rapid, long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.”

B) “The 18th century really was a waterborne (水运的) century, the 19th century a rail century. the 20th century a highway, car, truck century一and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air,” Kasarda says. Songdo, a city built from scratch in South Korea, is one of Kasarda’s prime examples. It has existed for just a few years.“ From the get-go, it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness,”says Kasada. “The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business District. And the surface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport .”

C) Songdo is a stone’s throw from South Korea’s Incheon Airport, its main international hub (枢纽). But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of the future. Just building a place as an “international business district” doesn’t mean it will become one. Park Yeon Soo conceived (构想) this city of the future back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby. “I am a visionary,” he says. Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park’s baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo. It’s about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, There’s a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university.

D) Chances are you’ve actually seen this place. Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come ou of South Korea. “Gangnam Style” refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul. But some of the video was filmed in Songdo.“I don’t know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway station. That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo,” says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at London’s Bartlett School of Planning, “Part of the reason to shoot there is that it’s new and nice.”

E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world. But hat’s not how it has turned out. Songdo’s reputation is as a futuristic ghost town. But the reality is more complicated. A bridge with big, light-blue loops leads into the business district. In the center of the main road, there’s a long line of flags of the world. On the corner, there’s a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven--all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.

F) The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers -- even in the middle of the day. when it’s 90 degrees out. Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005. He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years. Most of his clients are Korean. In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans. Young families move here because the schools are great. And that’s the problem: Songdo has become a popular Korean city 一more popular as a residential area than a business one. It’s not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners imagined. “It’s a great place to live. And it’s becoming a great place to work,” says Scott Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the city. The floor-to-ceiling windows of his company’s offices overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats. Shimmering (闪烁的)glass towers line the canal’s edge.

G) “What’s happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here,” he says. “There needs to be strong economic incentives.” The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit like a theme park. It doesn’t feel all that futuristic. There’s a high-tech underground trash disposal system. Buildings are environmentally friendly. Everybody’s television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise classes.

H) But Star Trek this is not. And to some of the residents, Songdo feels hollow. “I’m, like, in prison for weekdays. That’s what we call it in the workplace,” says a woman in her 20s. She doesn’t want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job. She goes back to Seoul every weekend. “I say I’m prison-breaking on Friday nights.” But she has to make the prison break in her own car. There’s no high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles away.

I) The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated. too. Park says he built South Korea a luxury vehicle, “like Mercedes or BMW. It’s a good car now. But we’re waiting for a good driver to accelerate.”

But there are lots of other good cars out there, too. The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies

J) Songdo’s backers contend that it’s still early, and business space is filling up—about 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied. Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle. “There have been a lot of utopian (乌托邦的) cities in history. And the reason we don’t know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished entirely.” In other words, when it comes to cities—or anything else—it is hard to predict the future.

36. Songdo’s popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.

37. The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.

38. A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot in Songdo.

39. Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.

40. Airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a professor.

41. Songdo has ended up different from the city it was supposed to be.

42. Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the workplace.

43. A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation.

44. Acording to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future.

45. Park Yeon So. Who envisioned Songdo, feels a parental connection with the city.

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